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An ethicist is somebody who sees something wrong with whatever you have in mind.

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Marvin Minsky
Age: 88 †
Born: 1927
Born: August 9
Died: 2016
Died: January 24
Artificial Intelligence Researcher
Computer Scientist
Mathematician
Scientist
University Teacher
New York City
New York
Marvin Lee Minsky
Marvin L. Minsky
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Sees
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Whatever
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I bet the human brain is a kludge
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It would be as useless to perceive how things 'actually look' as it would be to watch the random dots on untuned television screens.
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If we understood something just one way, we would not understand it at all.
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The brain happens to be a meat machine.
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Once the computers got control, we might never get it back. We would survive at their sufferance. If we're lucky, they might decide to keep us as pets.
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We wanted to solve robot problems and needed some vision, action, reasoning, planning, and so forth. We even used some structural learning, such as was being explored by Patrick Winston.
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In science, one learns the most by studying what seems to be the least.
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You don't understand anything unless you understand there are at least 3 ways.
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It's ridiculous to live 100 years and only be able to remember 30 million bytes. You know, less than a compact disc. The human condition is really becoming more obsolete every minute.
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Common sense is not a simple thing. Instead, it is an immense society of hard-earned practical ideas - of multitudes of life-learned rules and exceptions, dispositions and tendencies, balances and checks.
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The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.
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How many processes are going on, to keep that teacup level in your grasp? There must be a hundred of them.
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No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing but most of the time, we aren't either.
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But just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations of intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually.
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Theorems often tell us complex truths about the simple things, but only rarely tell us simple truths about the complex ones. To believe otherwise is wishful thinking or mathematics envy.
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By the way, it was his simulations that helped out in Jurassic Park - without them, there would have been only a few dinosaurs. Based on his techniques, Industrial Light and Magic could make whole herds of dinosaurs race across the screen.
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Eventually, robots will make everything.
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But the big feature of human-level intelligence is not what it does when it is works but what it does when it's stuck.
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To say that the universe exists is silly, because it says that the universe is one of the things in the universe. So there's something wrong with questions like, What caused the Universe to exist?
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Will robots inherit the earth? Yes, but they will be our children.
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